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uninˈhabited, ppl. a.
(un-1 8. Cf. unhabited.)
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxv. 12 The same fatnesse spreadeth itselfe even into the uninhabited countries. 1647Cowley Mistr., Welcome iii, Hast thou not found each womans breast..Either by Savages possest, Or wild, and uninhabited? 1670R. Coke Disc. Trade 10 The Country too becomes thin and uninhabited. 1711Addison Spect. No. 26 ⁋4 The present War had filled the Church with many of these uninhabited Monuments. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxxv, This chateau was uninhabited when St. Aubert and his daughter were in the neighbourhood. 1824L. M. Hawkins Annaline III. 193 The imposing stillness pervading these almost uninhabited regions. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt i, We have been too poor to keep servants for uninhabited rooms.
Hence uninˈhabitedness.
1727Bailey (vol. II), Wildness,..uninhabitedness. 1884Chr. World 12 June 434/4 The solitary uninhabitedness..was something awful in its impressiveness. |